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Winter Fuel of Discontent
Is this the week that things started to get a little difficult for the new government?
Prisoners have been released early - something which is never going to guarantee good headlines - and the row about the decision to cut winter fuel payments is not going away.
So are the attacks deserved? Will the government manage to fend them off - or at least take the blows and move on? And what does this all mean for Keir Starmer?
Plus: Select committee chair elections, Conservative leadership contest, and the Liberal Democrat conference.
With Emma Norris, Cath Haddon, Gemma Tetlow and Cassia Rowland…
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